The Yule Blog

Ah, what a quiet Christmas Eve it was for us without the kids around. I like to call us "Christmas Orphans", people that don't have any family around to celebrate the holiday. With family in San Francisco and Boston, we can't very well drive to see them. And buying 5 round trip tickets every holiday gets to be too much. So, we sent the kids to my parent's in California this year.

I snuggled on the couch by the Christmas Tree reading Brisingr. Brian grilled us some steaks for dinner and picked out a nice Cabernet for us. While we ate, we signed into Yahoo! Messenger and chatted with Hunter in San Francisco. He turned on his webcam so we could watch and hear everyone open their presents. It was just like being there.

The neighbors brought over a yummy home baked danish last night. So, I'm enjoying that with my coffee this morning. I'll probably do my five mile run in the rain after breakfast.

Tonight, our good friends invited all "Christmas Orphans" over to their house for dessert, drinks and games. Their family is in Michigan. It'll be nice to celebrate and enjoy the company of friends this evening.

I hope all of you have a wonderful Holiday and are able to celebrate and be surrounded by your loved ones this season. With that, I leave you with this gem from the beautiful people of Failblog.org.



In the chorus, he has the voice of an Angel ;o)

Enjoy!

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